Eric Massa Quotes

I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.

I've worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

I will move to Dera, Beas, post-transitioning my executive responsibilities at Fortis.

I was also a congressman. I had decided to run for office and had become a congressman with Queen Latifah.

President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval gunnery officer and then as Congressman for a quarter century.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

I will leave the U.S. Congress when the term for which I was elected expires in January 2011 and return to the practice of law with a sense of duty fulfilled.

As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.

It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate.

I loved being in the Senate. That was a wonderful experience.

As an actor, it's a very strange adjustment to start playing the father. I was used to playing a kid my whole life, and then all of a sudden, it's like, boom. I guess when I let my hair go grey, things changed.

After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

There is kind of a typical experience as a premier. You go in, you win a couple, you get out. Go serve on boards, take your head out of the political ringer and take on a much more private life.

Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.

I never believed that my service in the U.S. Congress should become a permanent career.

I really hate I being a congressman because all it is is constituent service.

Congress is the great commanding theater of this nation, and the threshold to whatever department of office a man is qualified to enter.

I’ve run for President twice. There are other ways to serve.

I love serving in the government. I love serving in the Senate.

I am a lawyer and 22 years the mayor of Davao City. I served as congressman of the first district for one term, and I was vice mayor to my daughter, Inday.